I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

Until you know who you are you can’t write.

As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is quite simply wrong. This, finally, is what all religions have in common. They didn't get it right.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

I didn't become a writer to write about me.

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.